Winter Park, Florida – October 13, 2011 –

Thomas D. Wood and Company, a Strategic Alliance Mortgage LLC member, secured financing in the amount of $3,300,000. $1,200,000 for the Dollar General Apopka, $1,000,000 for the Dollar General Orlando and $1,100,000 for the Shoppes of East Deltona.

Joe Dear, Company Vice President, secured financing for Dollar General Apopka in the amount of $1,200,000 through Thomas D. Wood and Company’s correspondent relationship with The First Colony Bank. The permanent fully-amortizing, full-recourse loan has a term of 15 years, based on an interest rate of prime +1% and a loan-to-value of 70%. The borrower needed a construction loan for a build-to-suit single tenant facility. The 9,100 square-foot single-tenant retail building is in the process of being built and is located at 1712 Rock Springs Road, Apopka Florida.

Dear also secured financing for Dollar General Orlando in the amount of $1,000,000 through Thomas D. Wood and Company’s correspondent relationship with The Ohio National Life Insurance Company. The permanent, fully-amortizing, non-recourse loan has a term of 15 years, based on an interest rate of 5.50% and a loan-to-value of 70%. The borrower wanted a long term, fixed rate loan secured by a recently completed Dollar General Store.  The 9,100 square-foot single-tenant retail building was built in 2011 and is located at 7965 Valencia College Lane, Orlando, Florida.

Jeff Schnupp, Company Vice President, secured financing for the Shoppes of East Deltona in the amount of $1,100,000 through Thomas D. Wood and Company’s correspondent relationship with The Standard Life Insurance Company. The permanent, fully-amortizing loan has a term of 15 years, based on an interest rate of 5.625% and a loan-to-value of 67%. The 8,450 square-foot multi-tenant retail strip center was built in 2009 and is located at 121 Howland Boulevard, Deltona, Florida.

Thomas D. Wood and Company is an independently owned, leading commercial mortgage banking firm in the southeast. Thomas D. Wood and Company has correspondent relationships with fifteen major life insurance companies, and is also a member of Strategic Alliance Mortgage LLC (SAM), a unique company consisting of 23 members who are all individually owned, commercial real estate investment/mortgage banking firms located throughout the United States.  Thomas D. Wood and Company’s servicing portfolio is now approaching one billion dollars.  This servicing portfolio consists of long-term mortgages on a variety of commercial properties located throughout the state of Florida.  These properties include: Retail, Industrial, Office, Senior Housing Communities, Self-storage, Apartments, Warehouses, Hotels and Mobile Home Parks.  Thomas D. Wood and Company’s corporate office is located at 95 Merrick Way, Suite 360, Coral Gables, Florida 33134, with branch offices located at 2105 Park Avenue North, Winter Park, Florida 32789, and 7349 Professional Parkway East, Sarasota, Florida 34240. The website may be accessed through www.tdwood.com.

Joe Dear              (407) 937-0470        jdear@tdwood.com

Jeff Schnupp              (407) 937-0470        jschnupp@tdwood.com

Ashlee Wood              (305) 776-3949         ashlee@tdwood.com

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